Clintonese at it's best.
Posted on 10/27/2003 6:59:58 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
London (ots) - On Thursday, former U.S. President Bill Clinton announced a remarkable new program designed to help developing countries clear two major obstacles to Aids treatment: the high cost of antiretroviral drugs, and the low quality of the countries' health-care systems. Clinton spoke with Time Europe editor Eric Pooley in an exclusive interview featured in this week's magazine - on newsstands across Europe from Monday October 28th. The Clinton Foundation has so far signed up four generic-drug companies and helped them cut production costs, reducing by one-third the price of aids-fighting drugs. The firms-three in India and one in South Africa-will still profit because of the high volume guaranteed by the Foundation, which is working with Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania (which account for one-third of the world's Aids cases), and more than a dozen countries in the Caribbean region. Excerpts from the interview are below: TIME: How did this initiative get started? Last year, Nelson Mandela and I were asked to close the International Aids Conference in Barcelona. While I was there, Denzil Douglas, the Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, came up to me and said, "We don't have a problem in the Caribbean of [Aids] denial, we have a problem of capacity. We have neither the money nor the systems necessary to meet this challenge. Will you help us set up nationwide systems of care and treatment?" And I said, "Sure." I had no clue how I was going to do it ... but I knew it needed to be done." TIME: How did you choose which countries to work with? They chose us. We were asked. When they found out what I was doing, they wanted me to do it in their nations as well. Then the Irish and the Canadians, bless them, said they would fund two of the African projects, and I've talked to six or seven other governments and almost all of them are going to wind up helping us. TIME: What's the price tag? We've probably raised a couple hundred million over the next five years. We need $700 million for Africa and the Caribbean, and I think we'll get it. We could do other countries, but it would require more money. And other people not associated with me could follow the model. TIME: President Bush has called for a $15 billion, five-year U.S. commitment to fight the spread of aids. Is the U.S. likely to contribute to your program? I haven't talked to them yet. I've been waiting for the budget year to end and the money to be released. But this is not a political deal for me, so I'd be honored if the U.S. would want to support any of these projects. The full interview is available in the November 3 issue of TIME Europe (available from tomorrow) and at www.timeeurope.com TIME magazine is available to readers worldwide in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia, South Pacific, Canada, Latin America and the U.S. Each issue offers readers access to Time Inc.'s global resources with regional, relevant stories. TIME is Europe's leading weekly newsmagazine, with a circulation of almost 575,000 across EMEA and 306,000 in Asia. Founded in 1923, TIME's worldwide circulation is more than 5.4 million.
Clintonese at it's best.
We're surely blazing new territory with this one aren't we Bill.
I hope not. I'd rather not pay anything as long as girly-boy Clinton can scarf it up somewhere else.
If we keep the $15 billion, we can use it for a better cause. The spread of AIDs can be eliminated by a change of behavior - and it's free for each and every individual.
If AIDs money was used for one time psychological help, maybe I'd support it. Otherwise, AIDs funding should be a left wing charity.
"H!llary and I saw that Bush was going to steal our thunder and beat us over the head with this issue in 2004, and we knew we could count on our good friends in the American media to help us steal it. You folks are great."
A money laundry service. They' re democrats. Their base doesn't work for a living. They have to get their cash from elsewhere.
More appropriate to call it the Clinton FUNDation.
This guy is delusional. He says we "raised" (past tense) "over the next five years." How does that work. Does anyone ever understand what this pathological liar says?
"He will decieve many through his lieing tounge." (Revelation)
They're talking about some dork from Arkansas.
Or "Clinton FUN-DATE-tion"!
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